Schlachter ready to get started

Guard landed at BSU after IU offer pulled

11:10 PM,
Apr. 1, 2013

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Looking back, Ball State offensive lineman Jalen Schlachter admitted he was scared two weeks before national signing day in 2011.

He'd been a longtime commit to Indiana after turning down offers from Wisconsin, Michigan and Michigan State. But with Kevin Wilson replacing Bill Lynch as the Hoosiers' head man, Schlachter got a call saying his scholarship offer was gone.

"We were like, 'What do we do now?'" Schlachter said. "We called around. All the schools that had offered me in the past, their classes were full. ...